A time when one head is really better than three...

I really wanted to make roasted garlic mashed potatoes the other night. My intention was to make the mashed potatoes into potato soup for dinner. The recipe I'd found had called for roasting 3 heads of garlic in the oven for 30 minutes, and adding them to like 4 cups of mashed potatoes.

I don't think the 30 minutes was long enough, because only like 2 of the cloves out of 3 whole heads of garlic came out smooshy like oven roasted garlic is "supposed to." I made the mashed potatoes with all 3 heads of not-quite-cooked garlic anyway (because I was in a hurry), and the garlic was VERY strong. Luckily someone brought dinner for us to judo that night and I didn't have to finish making the potato soup then.

I'm running out of stuff to make for dinner, so finishing the potato soup was all I could come up with in a pinch. I ended up making more potatoes and adding those to the mashed potatoes from the other night, fishing out a bunch of pieces of still-whole garlic cloves, adding a bunch of cheese, milk, bacon bits, and chives to help mask the garlic flavor. It turned out okay, but it's been nearly 4 hours since dinner, I've eaten some cookies and drank a bunch of water, and I'm still tasting the garlic! Hopefully brushing my teeth will help, 'cause this is going to be a nasty taste in my mouth in the morning!

A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~Old New York Proverb